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At 06 AUG 1998 08:04:47AM Trevor McDonald wrote:

AREV Specific

Does any one have a working version of COMMDRV.IBM for use on Com2 I can download. I have tried to create my own as per UTILITY.DOC.V124.TEXT but my editor may not be suitable for modifying a copy of the original driver or some other problem has occured. When I tried to load drivers for both comm1 and comm2 at the same time the system hangs. I am using a Pentium 150 with 16Mb ram( nothing special). I require drivers for both comm ports so that a I communicate with two different devices using V124.

At 06 AUG 1998 09:07AM Steve Smith wrote:

Trevor - you didn't mention your com 2 port address - use MSD.EXE from Windows 3.11 or similar to get the address. Then perhaps I can help.

Steve

stsm@ozemail.com.au

At 06 AUG 1998 09:23PM Trevor McDonald wrote:

Steve,

Comm2 address is standard com2 02F8H

Thank you

At 07 AUG 1998 07:34AM Steve Smith wrote:

This is from the developer notes:

* COMMDRV.IBM *

This version of the device driver COMMDRV.IBM allows remapping of COM port addresses, and specification of ports other than 1 and 2.

This routine expects that COM1 and COM3 will use Interrupt 4,

and COM2 and COM4 will use interrupt 3. There may not be multiple

COMMDRV.IBM's installed that are using the same interrupt.

YOU MUST NOT HAVE CONFLICTING DRIVERS INSTALLED!

COM1 & COM 2 – OK

COM3 & COM 2 – OK

COM4 & COM 1 – OK

COM1 & COM 3 – NO

COM2 & COM 4 – NO

Specifying COMMDRV.IBM as a device in the CONFIG.SYS file:

You may use the original syntax with COM1 and COM2, however, you must specify

a port when using COM3 or COM4.

Examples:

Original syntax:

DEVICE=COMMDRV.IBM 2000,1
                   2000 byte buffer size
                   1 is COM1
New syntax:

DEVICE=COMMDRV.IBM 2000,3@1005
                   2000 byte buffer size
                   3 is COM3
                   Port address at 1005
 Specify address by following COMM number with
 "at" symbol and command port address (in decimal)
 Here are the port addresses that we have found to work:
 COM1      1021
 COM2       765
 COM3      1005
 COM4       749
Email me at stsm@ozemail.com.au for further help if necessary

Steve

At 07 AUG 1998 08:29AM Aaron Kaplan wrote:

You should be able to use ARev's editor for this.

EDIT DOS COMMDRV2.IBM

akaplan@sprezzatura.com

Sprezzatura, Inc.

At 07 AUG 1998 08:20PM Carl Jacobs wrote:

I have a copy of the commdrv.ibm file in its entirety. However, I have received the Driver from my AREV software provider. I will check with them to see if there is any licensing requirements or restrictions involved with transferring that data to you. If my legal department gives me the OK. I will e-mail you, and you and I can set up a time to transfer the file to you.

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